SwingDJs

One of the labels that calls itself Past Perfect is up on eMusic now. It is this one http://pastperfect.com/, not the mysterious german label of the same name that sells lots of classic swing at cheap prices at places like Half Price Books. That being said, this album might interest some of you, htt...

Regarding a West Coast oriented group, there is the all_SwingDJ YahooGroup. It is not hard to be approved for the group, you do have to submit a list of ten songs each month and need to be a DJ who plays some form of swing music. They have a liberal definition of swing (compared to here). However, t...

Great job!

Steve Miller Raids Archives, Gets Jazzy June 16, 2006, 11:05 AM ET Billboard.com Gary Graff, Detroit With a 30th anniversary edition of Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle" due out this month, can the same treatment for its follow-up, "Book of Dreams," be far behind? Probably not, ...

I forwarded your reply to George, he should get on the Board soon to explain about the decimal reader, since he was the one who bought it.

Since I could not find a thread about the song, I figured I would start one. The inspiration is this post from the Tuwa Shanty Blog. http://tuwa.blogspot.com/2006/06/roots-canal-goin-to-kansas-city.html Obviously, a heavily recorded song. I even own a commercially released CD that is nothing by diff...

Victrola broke up, but the principals of the band (Alice and Ben) are in a newer band called ACME Song Company. They play gigs in Austin and have one coming up Friday. If you are serious about buying the CD, I can email Alice and Ben and see if they can bring one to their gig on Friday. I think the ...

Just about every other style of popular music has radio edits, dance remixes, etc... The practices of cutting solos out, trimming a length of the tracks are pretty similar to the long standing practice of cutting a song so it will fit better on a radio playlist. Somebody can be a purist about it and...

Is it obscure? Where have you heard it? How do you define slow?

For example, you could be describing "Li'l Darlin', but that song is on a lot of CDs and pretty common, I figure you are looking for something much more rare.

A lot of songs match your description.

Nathan

Played a few tracks tonight, they went over well. Matt Jones and Bill Borgida are playing tunes off the album also.

Thanks,
Nathan

New Lou Rawls reissues out today (2 albums on one CD packaging), source albums for some of the songs we play... Specifically, the two albums that followed the ever popular "Stormy Monday." http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh300/h321/h32107p0pkv.jpg Review by Tim Sendra Black and Bl...

Pet peeve as a DJ, when the venue either doesn't have a monitor for the DJ or the equipment is positioned behind the speakers so I can't hear how good/bad or loud/quiet the sound to the audience is. While a sound check at the beginning of the night is great, it's usually done when the hall is empty...

luh wrote:liked the show, - but i don't know if you got my mail or not:
you should definetely check out manhatten transfer's operator!
luh

I think you were mentioned on the last show (the 5th one that came out a few days ago). Jesse played the Manhatten Transfer version, talked about it, etc...

Interesting reissue today, probably not anything of note on it, but you never know. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Ae0ogtq5zcu4a http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh200/h263/h26381eef61.jpg For a good part of the '50s B.B. King recorded for the Bihari Brothers' RPM and Kent ...

I think most of the dancers would be lost during a musician based six degree contest like that. If the room were full of DJs, it would make more sense. A musician oriented contest would require a lot of explaining from the mic, who the players were, etc... At that point, the dancers might be more an...